Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-17

trnlni CnaC rODbery might Do accomplished.
The latest report from the Toledo, Peoria
q Western disaster makes the number Of
dead 1853. A coroner's inquest is In pro-
gress and the Railroad Commissioners will
make an Investigation regarding the respon:
to rest on the railroad company, it will be
called upon to pay 100000. to the rela-
tlves OF the dead and those injured, q sum
that would completely bankrupt the road.
The testimony thus far seems to favor the
theory that the bridge was purposely set on
fire, presumably for plumber.
IN THE EAST.
When Sherman w. Knevals, law
partner Of President Arthur arrived at New
York from Europe by tho servia Sunday,
dead. Young Knevals was found dead in
from heart disease. Mr.. KneTals, ST., had
been on flying trip to Europe. Surrogate
Rollins accompanied him. and when he
death of his mother, who died in New
Hampshire few days ago.
A vicious storm was encountered at
Franklin, Pa, Saturday evening, doing a
vast amount of damage. The western part
OF the city was inundated. A 5000 barrel
tank of oil, belonging to the Eclipse Oil
company, was fired by flash Of lightning
and for a time threatened the destruction Of
the entire oil works, the largest in the
world. The burning oil formed a pool
against the tracks of the New York, Penn
sylvania & Ohio and the Lake Shore rail-
road tracks, delaying all trains The loss
by the fire will reach $4,000.
Fire destroyed property valued at
$1,000, 900, at Pittsburg, Pa, Friday evening,
including the fine Masonic hall and several
prominent stores The insurance is about
halt the loss. The fire started in a carpet
store and is believed to have been in
cendiary. The Dispatch newspaper was
driven from its quarters and issued Satur-
day morning from the Chronicle Telegraph
office. One man became a raving maniac
at the destruction of his property.
A new secret organization known as
the "Brotherhood," in many respects
similar to the Knights of Labor, has been
portions in New England. The organization
does not believe in strikes, but uses the
ballot and cooperative institutions as
weapons of warfare. It also asks that the
government obtain possession by purchase
OF all the telegraphs, telephones and rail
roads.
Messers Ives and Staynor, President
and Vice-President of the Cincinnati,
forced to resign by the other directors of
the company, charged with misappropria-
ton of 81 ,000, 900 Of preferred stock in Wall
street transactions. and notably in an at
tempted Baltimore & Ohio deal. A. s..
Winslow, of Cincinnati and Christopher
Meyer of New York were elected to the
vacancies.
Col. John 81. Cochrane, of Newark,
N. j., a well known Grand Army of the Re-
public man, has been missing about two
weeks. He resigned his position with the
New Jersey Central railroad and said he
was going to accept a clerkship at Wash
ington, but he has not reached that city. He
is AZ years old and was mentioned for
bravery in several battlts of the war.
President Harris, of the Miners
Association in Pennsylvania, believes that
agreement relative to a sliding scale of
wages there will be another strike.
By a fret ght train wreck at Cone
WACO bridge, near York, Pa, Monday the
fagman was killed. The wreck was due to
the weak condition of the bridge, which
was undergoing repairs.
Daniel Rose of Montgomery, Pa,
while on his way to be married fell from
the cars at Clarks Ferry, receiving fatal
injuries. He died in the Harrisburg
hospital Monday.
The O'Donnel stave mill at Bridge
ton, N: j., took fire on the 10th, from burn
ing brush and was destroyed. Loss $3.50, OOO
Two million feet of slaves were burned with
the mill.
The Mayor and nineteen Council
men we're arrested on the 9th, at Wilkes
barre, Pa, for failure to keep the city clean
and the streets in proper condition.
The Wolfboro, N. H., Shoe factory
and dwellings, burned on the 10th. Loss
S125,OO0, very little insurance. 500 work
men were employed.
The chief of police at New Haven,
Conn.,, was fatally injured by a tough
whom he had arrested Sunday afternoon.
In fit of jealousy Geo. Whelsteen,
aged 10 killed his wife aged 80 and himself,
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, on Monday.
The first August frost was visible at
Wellsville, N. ", on the 9TH.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
A Chicago dispatch of the 9Th, makes
the following startling statement: A local
paper summing up the many reports re-
ceived by it of drought, prairie fires, ruined
crops, ETC., says this morning: There is an
area, perhaps 75,OOO square miles, in the